Basic text of the presentation as guest speaker at the Libero Badaró Educational, Social and Cultural Foundation 2003, in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State, Brazil, on June 4th 2003.

Main text of the presentation made at the offices of Noronha Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil, on May 29 2003, at the event commemorating the firm´s twenty fifth anniversary.

Basic text of the UNIBRASIL presentation, Curitiba, paraná, Brazil, given at the 1st Academic Meeting on May 28th, 2003.

On the occasion of the dinner of the Association of the Brazilian Friends of the Aristides de Souza Mendes Foundation, in São Paulo, Brazil, on 15 April 2003.

Speech presented at the Federal University of paraná (UFPR), in Curitiba, paraná, Brazil, on 10 April 2003.